“The Social Network,” “Inception” Lead Critics Choice Award Winners

"The Social Network," "Inception" Lead Critics Choice Award Winners

David Fincher’s “The Social Network” topped the generally predictable winners of the 16th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, handed out this evening by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The film – which details the origins of Facebook – took awards for best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, and best original score. After a near-complete domination of awards season thus far, the film is heading into the Oscar nominations a considerable frontrunner.

In addition to “The Social Network,” major winners included Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” which dominated the technical categories and actually took home the most trophies of the night, David O. Russell’s “The Fighter”, which took awards for best ensemble, and for both Melissa Leo and Christian Bale for best supporting actress and actor, respectively, and Tom Hooper’s “The King’s Speech,” which won both best actor (Colin Firth) and best original screenplay. All four films area all but guaranteed Oscar nominations for best picture.

Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” headed into the ceremony with a record 12 nominations, but won only one, for Natalie Portman’s performance.

Other winners included “Waiting For ‘Superman,'” which won best documentary feature over “Inside Job” and “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” and “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” which took best foreign language film over “I Am Love” and “Biutiful.”

Full list of announced winners below. Check out a list of all the announced awards so far this year here.

BEST PICTUREThe Social Network

BEST ACTORColin Firth – “The King’s Speech”

BEST ACTRESSNatalie Portman – “Black Swan”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTORChristian Bale – “The Fighter”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESSMelissa Leo – “The Fighter”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESSHailee Steinfeld – “True Grit”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLEThe Fighter

BEST DIRECTORDavid Fincher, The Social Network

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYThe King’s Speech

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAYThe Social Network

BEST ANIMATED FEATUREToy Story 3

BEST ACTION MOVIEInception

BEST COMEDYEasy A

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONThe Pacific

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMThe Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATUREWaiting for “Superman”

BEST SONG“If I Rise” – performed by Dido and A.R. Rahman/music by A.R. Rahman/lyrics by Dido Armstrong and Rollo Armstrong – 127 Hours